Description
Hitcham, a parish in Bucks, on the river Thames, at the boundary with Berks, adjacent to the G.W.R., 2 miles NE by E from Maidenhead, and 1 mile NE from Taplow station.. Post town, Maidenhead; money order and telegraph office^. Taplow. Acreage, 1484; population of the civil parish, 512;. of the ecclesiastical, 453. Hitcham House was the seat of the Clerkes, and was visited in 1602 by Queen Elizabeth.. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford; net value,. £400 with residence. Patron, Eton College. The church is a small but ancient building of stone, flint, and brick, has stained windows, and contains two brasses of the 16th century, and several ancient monuments.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
